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Psalms 49
- 1 Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world,
- 2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together.
- 3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
- 4 I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.
- 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of evil, When iniquity at my heels compasseth me about?
- 6 They that trust in their wealth, And boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
- 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, Nor give to God a ransom for him
- 8 (For the redemption of their life is costly, And it faileth for ever),
- 9 That he should still live alway, That he should not see corruption.
- 10 For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others.
- 11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, Andtheir dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.
- 12 But man being in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.
- 13 This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. [Selah
- 14 They are appointed as a flock for Sheol; Death shall be their shepherd: And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; And their beauty shall be for Sheol to consume, That there be no habitation for it.
- 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. [Selah
- 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased:
- 17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away; His glory shall not descend after him.
- 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul (And men praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself),
- 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; They shall never see the light.
- 20 Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.
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American Standard Version (asv - 2)
2021-02-18English (en)
The American Standard Version (ASV) of the Holy Bible is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy it, give it away, memorize it, publish it, sell it, or whatever God leads you to do with it.
The American Standard Version of 1901 is an Americanization of the English Revised Bible, which is an update of the KJV to less archaic spelling and greater accuracy of translation. It has been called "The Rock of Biblical Honesty." It is the product of the work of over 50 Evangelical Christian scholars.
While the ASV retains many archaic word forms, it is still more understandable to the modern reader than the KJV in many passages. The ASV also forms the basis for several modern English translations, including the World English Bible (http://www.eBible.org/bible/WEB), which is also in the Public Domain. The ASV uses "Jehovah" for Godߴs proper name. While the current consensus is that this Holy Name was more likely pronounced "Yahweh," it is refreshing to see this rendition instead of the overloading of the word "Lord" that the KJV, NASB, and many others do.
Pronouns referring to God are not capitalized in the ASV, as they are not in the NIV and some others, breaking the tradition of the KJV. Since Hebrew has no such thing as tense, and the oldest Greek manuscripts are all upper case, anyway, this tradition was based only on English usage around 1600, anyway. Not capitalizing these pronouns solves some translational problems, such as the coronation psalms, which refer equally well to an earthly king and to God.- Encoding: UTF-8
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